skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, do you mean like the domain name registration? That's also pretty small. I think it was, like, 12 USD, but I don't have the exact cost handy at the moment.

We've been experimenting with sending tokens of appreciation (evil plan: stickers/pins might get other people to talk to speakers about Emacs), but Corwin's treating that as a personal experiment and not including it in the conference budgeting.

And of course, there's a lot of stuff that isn't counted in monetary costs, like the time that speakers put into their talks or the servers that people have shared with us.

But yeah, it's surprising what you can do on a shoestring budget and with casual volunteers. Definitely worth considering if people have been thinking about running their own conference. :)
DIdn't Columbus essentially wipe out natives on the Carribean Islands though through a kind of forced labour (mining) genocide (with the "help" of disease)?

And Cortez wasn't exactly a passive visitor either?

Sure the diseases might've helped speed things up, but both of them seemed to be on a pretty intense and efficient pillaging, killing and raping spree. Where Cortez even went to great lengths to not only wipe out the natives but actually also destroy any trace of their largest city.
Like Universal healthcare? Very hard problem, we should learn from all those other 150 countries that have it. Very smart people.

Wish I saved the quote, but I remember reading something to the tone of "Everybody across all lines wants healthcare. But 8 rich people disagree, so it's complicated".
>How many lives would this save? Is this the most efficient way to do it? Is it enough?

Who cares?

When was the last time you helped a fellow human being? Could you answer that question honestly?
It's a nice list. I've only seen a few of the movies on there. Offhand, that includes "Hotel Artemis", "Vision Quest", "Moon", "Automata", "It Follows", "Omega Doom", "Predestination", "Cube", and "Freejack". But quite a few more look very interesting and will be going on my personal "to watch" list. Thanks for sharing!
A few days ago I was playing a trivia-ish game in which I was asked to spell "unlabeled", which I did. The questioner said I was wrong, that it "has two l's" (the U.K. spelling being "unlabelled"). I jokingly countered that I had spelled it with two l's, which she took to mean that I was claiming to have spelled it "unlabelled".
Huh. Well today I learned that was a thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_acknowledgement
>First, private insurance shouldn't exist at all. It is rent-seeking of the highest order. There's no need for it. The US is the only country that works this way.

Some other countries have private insurance as an option. For example, you can buy private insurance in the UK and some provinces of Canada if you want. Some people obviously feel it is worth it to them to do so (faster time to treatment, private versus shared hospital rooms, etc.). The difference from the US system is that there is a public system available without this expense.
Make that 4 https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20241230001500320
It doesn't. The point is that for tiny apps it doesn't matter - you can replicate that interface in 3 toolkits very easily.

Same applies to applications that want to display 3 edit boxes, an image and 2 buttons. Just do it in the native framework 3 times. It's not that much work.
The images and video you're looking for are here: https://hackaday.com/2024/12/28/full-color-3d-printing-with-...
If there are competitive advantages they should be able to convince everyone to switch without lobbying the govt
When Jimmy Carter left office, his peanut business was $1M in debt (2019)
Well we're not at that point right now, and in 2009 $7.25/hr also wasn't at that point either. So surely we can bump to $10.83 pretty darn safely since it's the same in real dollars.
Some haunting episodes of "The Twilight Zone".

I remember seeing the episode "Walking Distance" for the first time as a Freshman just in college. I was away from home, away from all my friends. I was coming to realize, with a kind of horror, that the door behind me, my childhood, had truly shut. I wasn't sure at all that I would like this new adult world.

Gathered in the "commons" room of the dorm, watching that "Twilight Zone" episode, I just sat in the back of the dark room and cried. But his final message, that there are merry-go-rounds in the adult world if you know to look for them stuck with me.

Also blown away when I saw the episode, "The Lonely". If you know the episode, you know how it ends.

"All you're leaving behind Corry, is loneliness."

"I must remember to keep that in mind."
I remember that last year's talk on Emacsen included Lem and it was well-received. https://emacsconf.org/2023/talks/emacsen/ I hope Lem continues to grow!
Pedantry, from a promateur, but also see the Veritasium tube linked elsewhere here:

0. No cutting needed whatsoever,

but you do need a watch-glass. (Keeps the grapes in contact)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCrtk-pyP0I&t=4m37s
Considering how many people are using cases and even wallet cases, probably very many people. The case/wallet can be attached to the phone as a replacement to the normal backplate, making it much less bulky, just as Samsung did forever ago.
> Barcelona, previously a jewel of Europe, now has as many homeless as LA in some areas.

Hmm, I doubt it, but let me spend 7 seconds to Google about it.

Ok, I just Googled: "Barcelona homelessness"

> In December 2023, Fundació Arrels, an organization that helps the homeless, reported that 1,384 people were living on the streets in Barcelona, the highest number ever recorded.

Then I Googled: "los angeles homelessness"

> The 2024 count estimated that the homeless population in Los Angeles County declined by 2.2% to 45,252.
I think it'd be easier to figure out how to manage that nuclear waste than burning humanity towards extinction and trying to deal with it when we get to it.
That doesn't make any sense, this video was published days ago. I watched it then.
Walking from San Jose to San Francisco [video]
See also these previous discussions (some are for specific chapters):

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41945308 (252 points | 65 days ago | 83 comments)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41222528 (68 points | 4 months ago | 47 comments)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37478111 (218 points | Sept 12, 2023 | 93 comments)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35178719 (191 points | March 16, 2023 | 107 comments)
Nationalism is not merely having having a moment as an "American shtick", though I don't know much about how widespread it is in non-Western developing countries. Certainly might not be so much, there.

The real possibility exists that it would be better to be an independent 'second place' technology center (or third place, etc) than a pure-consumer of someone else's integrate tech stack.

China decided that a long time ago for the consumer web. Europe is considering similar things more than ever before. The US is considering it with TikTok.

It's not hard to see that expanding. It's hard to claim that forcing local development of tech was a failure for China.

Short of a breakthrough that means the everyday person no longer has to work, why would I rather have a "better" but wholly-foreign-country-owned, not-contributing-anything-to-the-economy-I-participate-in-daily LLM or image generator or what-have-you vs a locally-sourced "good enough" one?
Spend money developing proprietary approaches to ML.
This may be a bit of an old allusion, but Lotus Notes is a great example of this. Notes is fundamentally a programmable, non-relational, client/server replicated database with a UI on top of it. It's a workflow engine for accomplishing whatever business processes a company might have that can be made to keep working pretty well when the client computer is offline. It can be anything.

But it is remembered first and foremost as an email system, a feature that's fairly trivial to implement once you have a replicated database and a UI on top of it that can display lists and text. But it had to be an email system first because you can't sell something that can do anything if it doesn't do anything.
> You haven't tried other none web rendering engines

You responded to my comment where I did. I hate all the GUI frameworks the same and know a few of them. It's still unnecessary to use electron in a lot of places where it's used today.
> Not sure why you are so upset about a small and neat study

This article is yet another example of someone misunderstanding what an LLM is at a fundamental level. We are all collectively doing a bad job at explaining what LLMs are, and it's causing issues.

Only recently I was talking to someone who loves ChatGPT because it "takes into account everything I discuss with it", only, it doesn't. They think that it does because it's close-ish, but it's literally not at all doing a thing that they are relying upon it to do for their work.

> If you ask it to summarize (without feeding the entire bible), it needs to know the bible.

There's a difference between "knowing" the bible and its many translations/interpretations, and being able to reproduce them word for word. I would imagine most biblical scholars can produce better discourse on the bible than ChatGPT, but that few if any could reproduce exact verbatim content. I'm not arguing that testing ChatGPT's knowledge of the bible isn't valuable, I'm arguing that LLMs are the wrong tool for the job for verbatim reproduction, and testing that (and ignoring the actual knowledge) is a bad test, in the same way that asking students to regurgitate content verbatim is much less effective as a method of testing understanding than testing their ability to use that understanding.
Well, who does Gruber usually shill for?

The question is - why would that one company want this hot take out there?
> Basically every commercial aircraft are required to at least be able to fly straight and level on one engine.

Very nitpicky but I have to say it:

The requirement is „one engine out“, not „one engine available“.

This makes a significant difference when looking at planes with more than 2 engines, like a 747 or an A380. Those have to be flyable with 3 engines remaining (which gives them an advantage because 2 engine planes have to calculate takeoff with 1/2 engine performance while 4 engine planes can assume 3/4 engine performance).
Question: what can you do with the A100s that you cannot to with multiple 3090s?

Or rephrasing for somebody that never tried to experiment with models: which one do you need to have something like ChatGPT-4o (text only) at home?
I must admit; you actually try to convey why the US is great besides making money (or, as many maga idiots cite; gun ownership and 'freedom'. Kudos for that; you cited 0 things I would personally be interested in; we have bbqs and national holidays; both are nice the first time and then, well, not so much. The rest shows that you over sampled the koolaid and actually believe trump is going to make things 'even better' and believe that all systemic issues are wokeness and weakness. I hope you are really very rich as hard times coming, but then again, you did want those; president musk said; things will become much worse and people will need to tighten their belts before it becomes better. Which is code for my mate trump and our other mates will rob everything (mostly in terms of removing all regulatory oversight, rich/company taxes etc) in the coming 4 years and someone else can take over that turd while we go make more money after that. And smart people like you who got a chance actually think that they mean this is for the country and the people.

I digress; there is no culture except maybe the idiotic focus on sports (watching that is; everyone still obese!), although that's no different in AUS and for a large extent the UK, so actually, nope.

Disclaimer; lived and worked in the US; left the first time trump got the presidency.
Thanks for the complimentary description, Mr. Knows Better.. Admittedly my source is the 2nd half of this video, but you'll need to have taken a German class to understand it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS4GyHEhNvk
Even if you break up a codebase, you need selective testing.

Let's say you have 100 small repos, and make a change to one. How confident are you in the changed repo's test suite that you can guarantee there are no bugs that will affect other related repos? If not, which other repos do you test with your change to get that confidence?
This shouldn't depend on clocks, just tracking Etag is more consistency proof.
I mean, Kennedy undoubtedly wanted to run. This isn't some niche conspiracy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_United_States_presidentia...

"a few days before the announcement went badly, however. Kennedy gave an "incoherent and repetitive"[9] answer to the question of why he was running, and the polls, which showed him leading Carter by 58–25 in August now had him ahead 49–39."

Who knows how this could have gone had that interview not bombed his ratings.
Sure but that needs to be set up and configured. I just don’t think there’s enough time in the scenario for ATC to guide a non-pilot to do it. And if they got that guidance, why no flaps and gears? I am quite convinced the pilots themselves had control of the aircraft.
Totally agree. I see nothing 'left' in the current democratic party. Pro wars, pro boarder hardening, no real effort on healthcare. Slowly but surely they are turning towards the 'conservative' path. Arguably that is one of the big reasons they lost. They are trying to be the Republican Lite party.
Its kind of unclear what the actual prediction was.
This is why you have to pay me to use Microsoft products. Their user experience is contentious with the continual degradation. The only nice thing I have to say about Microsoft is that when I retire, I will no longer be forced to engage with them and their enshitification.

They are even trying to push out local user accounts on their embedded / IoT version of their OS. The company I work for is evening having me port their product's hosted OS from Windows to Linux so they don't have to deal with their hostel user experience.
There is no technical moat, but that doesn't mean there isn't a moat.

Amazon might be a good analogy here. I'm old enough to remember when Amazon absorbed billions of VC money, making losses year over year. Every day there was some new article about how insane it was.

There's no technical moat around online sales. And lots of companies sell online. But Amazon is still the biggest (by a long long way) (at least in the US). Their "moat" is in public minds here.

Google is a similar story. As is Facebook. Yes the details change, but rhe basic path is well trodden. Uber? Well the juries still out there.

Will OpenAI be the next Amazon? Will it be the next IBM? We don't know, but people are pouring billions in to find out.
Mostly I see two outcomes. Either the holders "lose" and it basically follows "human" rules meaning you can train a model on any (legally obtained) material but there's restrictions on use and regurgitation. I say "human" rules because that's basically how people work. Any artist or writer worth their salt has been trained on gobs of copyrighted material, and you can totally hire people to use their knowledge to violate copyright now.

the other option is the holders "win" and these models must only be trained on owned material, in which case the market will collapse into a handful of models controlled by companies that already own huge swaths of intellectual property. basically think DisneyDiffusion or RandomHouse-LLM. Nobody is getting paid more but it's all above board since it's been trained on all the data they have rights to. You might see some holders benefit if they have a particularly large and useful dataset, like Reddit or the Wall Street Journal.
Little Snitch and similar programs let you manage connections per application.

You can’t do that outside of the device.
Sitting on a tuktuk(auto-rickshaw) and looking at the road
In what way was Twitter's funding model its demise? What? Because they had advertising, they turned into a negative community? Disagree.
If I got it correctly, they would only do this on Linux to face the performance issues of the native webview. Also, there are ideas of a shared installation: https://github.com/chromiumembedded/cef/issues/3836
Hey.. can you back that up with data, like this one?:
https://www.macpac.gov/publication/national-health-expenditu...

That suggested, I looked at the table and could not plainly see the problem. Would imagine that time series presented like with an analog of Tim Morgan's Energy cost of Energy for energy markets might help..
You're asking for a lot of evidence on what's overall the opinions of an entire country. Something entire electorial campaigns apparently struggle to do despite their funding ballooning.

You have to do that research yourself, that isn't a question answered within HN's character limit. But Bernie's popularity along the youth probably was not just some trend, to help you start.
You're ignoring all the people that lost their jobs and had their hours shortened. If 1000 people earn minimum wage, raising it, some of them make more money, some lose money because their hours are shortened, some lose money because the jobs disappear. Whether that's a net positive overall is what's debated.
> Price discrimination ("differential pricing",[1][2] "equity pricing", "preferential pricing",[3] "dual pricing",[4] "tiered pricing",[5] and "surveillance pricing"[6]) is a microeconomic pricing strategy where identical or largely similar goods or services are sold at different prices by the same provider to different buyers based on which market segment they are perceived to be part of.

That sounds exactly like what is happening here.

Intra-zone and inter-zone network traffic are two very similar services. One is free and one costs 1¢ per GB. And customers who need inter-az traffic are probably in a different market segment. Now, it is more expensive for AWS to build the infrastructure for inter-zone networking, so it isn't exclusively price discrimination, but assuming that getting more money from wealthier clients was a motivation, it seems to match the definition to me.

Re: excludability, yes it is excludable since there is a price, but that doesn't have much to do with how the price is much higher than the cost to AWS for providing the service.
All I get from this is that Amiercan doesn't want "good men" as president and crumble everytime their personal economy feels bad, clearly caused by whoever is currently sitting.
That table shows insurers incurring roughly 1/9th the costs of providers, which seems plain enough.
I think it would simplify the transition for a person moving between physical media and digital, and vice versa. The mixing examples they show on the webpage for the Mixbox algorithm look real to me and make the mixing available in other programs seem incorrect.

edit: I'll add though that Mixbox doesn't seem to take actual physical pigment characteristics into account and that can radically impact pigment mixing.
We are in post policy politics. It no-longer matters what you do, how intelligent or well executed your plans were, just what the messaging says. It is far easier to pick things that you can control messaging on and make them the issues, even when they aren't, than to actually take on the hard things that truly impact people's daily lives. That is what killed Carter's second term and that playbook has just gotten stronger in the years since.
And the reason employed people can't choose their own insurance is that they don't get tax deduction then, so they are left at the mercy of their company.
When historians study the U.S. a thousand years in the future his presidency will be the demarcation line between the Anglo-American Republic and the semi-democracy we live in now.
And Maryland, where I'm from. Our most recent Republican governor ran for Senate, in the awkward position of trying to run away from Trump. It did not work.

Those Republican governors in blue states try to run as "old fashioned" conservatives, more about economic policy than culture war. It can work within the state but less well when the national platform is at stake.
Zillow's pricing metrics aren't free of flaws either, as it's not an appraisal but an estimate based on aggregate data collected by Zillow (which is non-exhaustive).

In SF (and the Bay in general), a lot of listings are handled locally via local RE agents or family offices and do not show up on Zillow (most notably in Chinese heavy neighborhoods like Sunset as well as the more old money Nov Hill+Richmond+Pac Heights areas).

And finally, based on the information provided by this blog, it just doesn't seem like a credible source. A blog dedicated on writing about the "Housing Crisis 2.0" on a near daily basis is not a great source.

Personally, as someone who is in the process of buying, inventory is low and prices are still fairly high (when factoring interest rates) because most buyers were able to buy up or refi during the near-0 interest rate days, and will not budge for that reason.
As I already told you (yes, you), I doubt anything I say will change your mind. I do hope one day you will come to see that yelling ching chong at an asian man on the street should be seen as racist if you think a bunch of Arabs were being racists just because they said the word "Bangladeshi."
Most popular Mac apps like Spotify, vscode, are not
>>Good, a job that cannot support biological needs should not exist. It’s not a viable business.

>>Why should I pay a stealth subsidy to whatever business it is.

I think a lot of the argument around minimum wage is a disagreement (or misunderstanding?) about minimum wage workers.

Let's say you have a $10/hr minimum wage, and some company BigCo hires people and pays them $10/hr. Now, the disagreement: is BigCo actually getting $10/hr of value out of those workers? Or is it $20/hr, or $50/hr, or $5/hr, or $2/hr? Because I think that's a critical question both in terms of "should we subsidize those workers/BigCo" and "should we raise the minimum wage".

Some people do not currently, and may never, have skills that are worth $25/hr in terms of value produced in our economy. I think we need to make sure those people still have an acceptable standard of living, but I don't think setting the minimum wage to $25/hr is likely to do that.
Probably because he was the most humanitarian president post-campaign. His accomplishments done after presidency could be its own Wikipedia entry.

That gives me the impression that the 70's was simply a bad time with a good man in charge, when in those times people more or less want to be told "it's okay I'll fix it" with no plan in sight.

we're living through THAT in real time, so I guess history rhymes.
I just Googled for "1962 mcdonalds hourly wage". It was much less than $2. Minimum wage was 1.15, and a Federal Reserve study called "Employee Earnings in Retail Food Stores, June 1962" says about 1.70. Also, cumulative inflation from 1962 to today is about 10.5x.
Wpuld nobody pleaase think of the slopen!
Mvcc will create multiple persistent files on disk which is very un+sqlite like
As others have indicated, LuLu (like Little Snitch) notifies you when your machine is initiating an outbound connection and lets you grant or deny permission, and to set up a persistent rule for that app/connection.
Little snitch is great; I give it as a bd present to people.
H1Bs don’t displace local jobs.

They displace offshoring.

If the companies looking to H1B workers are only doing so to cut their costs irrespective of the quality of talent why wouldn’t they outsource the work to someone in India for 1/4th the salary and fewer benefits instead?
Not that anyone is likely to see this older thread, but Earth Abides was just released as a series. I haven’t watched it yet, I hope it does the book justice.
Fascinating video with terrible audio for some reason. It made it hard to watch the video. It fixes its self a few minutes in at least.